Friends In High Places: Garth Brooks (l) celebrates surpassing 200 million certified units with Ben Farrell’s daughter, Ella Grace; Varnell Enterprises’ Jim Varnell; and Farrell’s wife, Autumn (l-r).
Oil Gig: Sony Music Nashville’s Zach John King at Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium. Pictured (l-r) are WFMS’ Brooks O’Brian and Matt Malone, WUBE/Cincinnati’s Grover Collins, King, WHKO/Dayton’s Nancy Wilson, WBTU/Fort Wayne, IN’s Randy Alomar, the label’s Anna Widmer and WLHK’s Nick Jordan.
Girls Gone Wild: Warner/WRN's Ashley McBryde (l) with Katie & Company's Katie Neal.
Cause Only You Can Love Me This Highway: MCA's Keith Urban (l) with SiriusXM The Highway's Cody Alan.
Industry veteran Shane Allen has joined Riser House as EVP/Promotion & Artist Brand Strategy. The company has also promoted nine-year company veteran Megan Stottlemyer from Label Manager to VP/Label Operations, VP/Streaming & Strategic Partnerships Alex Heimerman to Head/Marketing & Label Strategy and Dir./Business Affairs Jason VanAuken to VP of that department.
Most recently with Eric Church's SiriusXM channel, Outsiders Radio (CAT 11/28/22), Allen previously spent six years at Columbia, where he was SVP/Promotion, joining from the VP/Promotion role at Capitol/Nashville. Allen joined Capitol in 2007, left for a short stint with Red Light Management at the begining of 2009, then returned to Capitol in August of that year. When the label merged with UMG/Nashville in 2012, he held that title for all four of UMGN's imprints. Reach him here.
Stottlemyer joined Riser House full-time from an intern position in Jan. 2017, was named Product Mgr./Marketing Head that July and promoted to Label Manager in 2022 (CAT 11/18/22). Reach her here. Heimerman joined Riser House last year from The Trenches (CAT 6/3/25), with previous stops at MCA and Red Light; reach him here. VanAuken has been with the company since its launch in 2017; reach him here.
